On 4 Jan 2007 at 12:12, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 04.01.2007 David W. Fenton wrote: > > That's only a possibility for people using IE6 or before. It's not > > even remotely plausible for anyone using any non-IE browser, or IE7. > > Can you explain?
The malware and spyware that infects visitors to a web page is 99% accomplished by the tacit installation of ActiveX controls. Only IE has ever supported that, and IE7 locks things down so it's not possible to install one accidentally. There have been other exploits that *might* have introduced malware, but most were quickly patched. The IE vulnerability is architectural -- ActiveX never should have been enabled in the web browser except in a sandbox mode that couldn't do anything dangerous. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
